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psychological determination
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nothing about human behavior occurs by accident; all is predetermined or a psychological cause
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Id
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beyond conscioud awareness. Whatever is present at birth. All that relates to satisfaction of physical drives.
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Pleasure principle
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Achievement of pleasurable feelings as quickly as possible through the reduction of discomfort.
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Primary process
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A continual flow of infintile images and wishes demanding direct and immediate satisfaction.
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Libido
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energy of sexual desires, in the broadest sense.
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Eros
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Represents energy for preserving oneself or others. Life energy.
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Thanatos
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Represents energy aimed at returning living things to their original non living state. Destructive, death energy.
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Ego
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Coherent organization of mental processes derived from the id which intermediates between the id and reality to effectively satisfy the ids needs in a constructive fashion.
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Reality principle
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the Ego's capacity to delay gratification until best route to meet needs is found.
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Secondary process
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intellectual operations (such as thinking, evaluating, planning) to test reality to determine if behaviors are benificial.
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Anxiety
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a state of extreme emotional discomfort.
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Defense mechanism
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unconscious, automatic psychological strategies to regain control over threatening id instincts.
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Repression
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threatening material becomes unavailable for recall, because it has been pressed down into the unconscious for protection.
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Projection
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protects us from threats by allowing us to see our unacceptable characteristics only in other people.
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Rationalization
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allows us to excuse our unacceptable behaviors but self-deceptive reasoning.
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Denial
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the process by which we refuse to acknowlege what is too hard to bear.
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Intellectualization
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conceptualizing on an academic rather than an emotional level what is too threatening in order to rationalize it to ourselves.
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Neurosis
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a pattern od abnormal behaviors related to an over control of instincts.
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Hysterical Neurosis
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a condition which people display symptoms of a disorder to avoid experiences to threatening for conscious consideration while physical evidence of the disorder is absent.
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Superego
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representation of sociatal norms within a personality.
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Introjection
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the process by which the personality incorporates social norms through identification with important others.
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Morality principle
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code of sociatal values of right and wrong.
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Conscience
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the internal agent that punishes us when we do "wrong".
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Guilt
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intense feelings of regret or inadequacy.
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Ego ideal
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positive standards in the form of internal representations of idealized parental figures.
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Oral or Narcissistic (self-centered)stage
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age 0-1 1/2. Phase where psychic energy is focused on satisfying the needs of the mouth and digestive tract, including tounge and lips.
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Fixation
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developemental impairment within a psychosexual stage which results in perminent investment of libidinal energies in said stage.
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Regression
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retreating to behaviors, feelings & thoughts characteristic of the earlier fixated stage.
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Oral-receptive
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personality type that results from pleasurable experiences of the oral phase. Associated with dependency and suggestability.
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Oral-aggressive
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personality type that results from pleasure associated with oral phase with an emphasis on chewing and biting.
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Anal Stage
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2nd PS stage (1 1/2-3 yrs.) The period in which sexual gratification occurs when defecation relieves the tention of full bowls while stimulating the anus.
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Anal retentive
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an adult personality type characterized by delay of satisfaction to the last possible moment. Constipated orentation.
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Anal expulsive
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adult personality type inclined to disregard widly accepted rules such as orderliness and appropriate behavior. Diarrectic orientation.
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Phallic Stage
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3rd PS stage (3-6 yrs.) Satisfaction is primarily reached through stimulation of thr penis or clitoris- through masterbation.
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Oedipus complex
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revolves around a boys sexual desire for his mother and fearful hatred for his father.
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Electra Complex
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bases on a girls sexual desire for her father and her wishes to replace her hated mother.
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Castration anxiety
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a boys fear of losing his penis (his highly prized pleasure organ)He fears father will cut it off when he learns of the boy's desire for mother.
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Penis envy
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refer's to a girl's inferior fellings of having no penis and compensatory wishes to one day obtain one.
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Identification
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the process of becoming like the same-sex parent.
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Ego strength
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ego's ability to interact with reality on behalf of the id and to inhibit impulses until safe.
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Latency Stage
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4th PS stage (6-13 yrs). Quiet period where children supress infantile urges & attraction to the desired parent.
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Sublimation
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a process that reorients instinctual aims in new directions consistant with social norms.
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Genital Stage
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5th and last PS stage (13+ yrs.)
The stage of mature sexual love where one directs affection and lust toward another person. |
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Cathexes
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attachments of libidinous energies to either to real external world objects or to fantasized inner world images.
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displacement
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finding a new, less threatening target for feelings.
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Free association
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orientation that allows ideas, images, memories, and feelings to be expressed spontaniously.
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Catharsis
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A process where inner feelings are openly expressed leading to release of tentions.
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Manifest content
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what a dreamer remembers when s/he awakens.
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Laten content
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The underlying meaning of a dream.
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Psychoanalysis
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Freud's procedure designed to provide insight necessary to rid the personality of neurotic conflicts.
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Insight
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the making conscious of unacceptable experiences buried in one's unconscious.
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Transference
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occurs when the patient projects feeling for a significant person onto the therapist.
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Countertransference
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occurs when the therapist projects their own unconscious needs onto the patient.
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Slips of the tongue
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verbal errors that seem to replace neutral words with ones supposedly emanate fom the unconscious.
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